St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-20
THE DAY IN DULUTH.
Recovery Of the Body Of a Man from
the Stormy Lake.
PROBABLY A MAIL CARRIER.
Statistics Of Wheat and Corn---An In
teresting Budget from the
Zenith City.
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Zenith City.
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DULUTH, Mimi, Dec. 19.-A6Out $3.50
! O'Clock this morning eX-Jailer Charles
Banks, while endeavOring to save a
small crib work from destruction by the
| immense waves, distinguished a pc
culiar object coming shoreward, which
proved to be the bottom and part of the
side of clinker built boat about twenty
feet long and painted green. This was
| pulled on shore out of reach of the furi-
| Gus waves, and the men resumed work.
An hour and a half afterWard another
| object was seen far out in the lake bob
| bling about on the crest of the waves
As it neared the breakers it was made
out TO be the body of a man, and was
flung at times high in the air above the
top of the water, the arms and legs
! gyrating as if in life. The body reached
| shore and Banks drew it out Of the surf
! The coroner was summoned, but failed to
| put i'll an appearance, and the chief of
/ police ordered the body removed to the
| mOrgue. Tie remains are those of a
man about fOrty-five years old, but so
! bCIllDlN UdllClCu do W NC dllllOSI
OgniZaDle. The coroner, on appearing.
! said the remains had been in the water
! several weeks. The body was Scantily
clothed, but one pair of thin pants and
! heavy boots and shirt being worn; 50
! cents were found in a pocket. 1t is be-
| lieYed that the dead man is mail car
/ Tier, who had route along the north
| shore, and made his way through float
| ice and storm in a small combination
| sail and row boat. On the trip before
| the present he was two weeks late
| reaching Two HarbOrS from Grand Ma
rails, and was supposed to be lost, but
came in all right in the calm weather.
The deceased, if it is the mail carrier,
was absolutely fearless about water,
and left Two HarbOrS with companion
last Thursday at o'clock in the
morning with two sacks of mail, num-
Der of registered letters and a large
quantity of provisions for the trip. The
names of the two men as given to the
postmaster at Two HarbOrS, Oh the mail
receipts, were David Canebaw, of Grand
Marais, and Charles MarkaSan, of Grand
Portage, both of mixed blood, each
about fOrty-twO years old. The body
will be kept for a day or two to await
positive Identification. The conductor
of the accommodation train on the Du-
luth d Iron Range road reports seeing
part of the wreck of the small green
boat at Knife island, sixteen miles from
here, which strengthens the belief of
the loss of the mail carrier. Search
will be made for the body of his COM
panion.
GRAIN IN STORE.
The total amount of grain now in store
in Duluth, according to reports made, is
IN,,choIc of xrrl,ioh =
wheat. OF wheat 4,624,347 bushels, OF
nearly IS per cent. is No. hard, and of
the remaining II per cent twO-thirdS is
No. Northern, the next highest grade,
a proportion never reached outside of
Duluth elevators and but seldom even
here. The increase of wheat in store
for the week has been LOOP, $50 bushels,
as against an increase of 1868, 43S bushels
during the corresponding week last
year, showing wheat to be coming in
about three times as fast now as then.
! There were, however, S,573,01S bushels
| in store here year ago to-day. Of corn
there is now in store Ia, 426 bushels, an
| increase of "a, 546; of oats 70,919, an in
crease of 4, 40. Car receipts of wheat
this morning were AS, or about 100000
| bushels. So far this season since Sept.
| l, Duluth has handled over IL 500, 900
bushels of the crop of 1887, or within
| 100000 of the total credited us for the
entire year by Minneapolis grain men.
| A special meeting of the directors of the
! board of trade was held this morning to
take measures for uniform grading of
corn at Duluth and Chicago. The Chi
| cagO corn inspector will be sent for to
work with the Duluth inspectors, to ac-
custom each to the grading of the other
and TO render them more uniform. The
| step is taken by the board i'll the eXpec-
tatiOn of very considerable receipts of
corn during the season.
AN UNLCCKY MAN.
Michael SObTaSky, 4 POlander, en-
! plOyed as q Switchman in the yards of
the st. Paul d Duluth railway, can well
appreciate the truth of the saying lone
misfortune close upon the heels of an
other doth follow" About a month ago
| SObrasky had several fingers crushed
while coupling cars, and he had barely
! recovered so as to be able to work when
| at 7:45 this morning, at the foot of First
| avenue west he was dragged under the
| engine and his left arm so badly mangled
as to render immediate amputatiOn
necessary. The unfortunate man
stepped from the engine on which he
was working and was caught by road
engine No. 90 on parallel track. Suf-
fering intense agony he was carried to
his home. There is but small hope OF
his recovery. He is married and twen-
! ty-eight years old.
A LOG CONTRACT.
Porter & Crowley started to-day for
Tower with men and teams. where they
will put in at once 1000, 900 feet of logs
for c. l.. White * Co. The mill will be-
gin saving on timber as soon as posi-
bic, and it is expected that the whole
1000, 900 will be sawed and shipped tC
Two HarbOrs where it will go into new
ore docks in sixty days.
THE BREEZES BLOW.
One of the severeSt storms ever
known here is setting in. Two small
outer piers on Minnesota point are ut
terly destroyed.
The Standard Oil company will make
Duluth its general northwestern office
as well as receiving and distributing
depot. AS it now is, Duluth does all
the real work and st. Paul gets all the
credit. For the first three years the
company was established here the re.
ceipts of oil were less than 1000 barrels
but in 1856 the receipts jumped up tC
1920 barrels and this year were 63, 3Ss
barrels. One cargo was received during
the year amounting to 1000 barrels.
A wreck at Greedy station. ON the st.
Paul Il Duluth road, blockaded several
| miles of wheat and coal trains from
| passing all day Sunday. The damage
was confined to rolling stock and freight
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